Attacks in just the past week or so have left scores dead – including dozens of U.S. troops. Two U.S. helicopters apparently were shot down. In a recent tape, al Qaeda’s No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahari, mocks President Bush’s plans to send more troops to Iraq.

The white-flag crowd will have a field day with all this, no doubt. But there’s been some good news, too, of late, that has gotten far too little attention. To wit:

* In the Philippines, special forces last week killed Abu Solaiman, an al Qaeda-linked leader of the militant group Abu Sayyaf, wanted for beheading an American tourist and kidnapping two U.S. missionaires.

* In Mogadishu last month, Ethiopian troops ousted the Islamist regime that controlled most of Somalia for the past six months. Ethiopia says that it didn’t suffer a single casualty in the operation.

The Islamists and assorted terror suspects were left scrambling for escape routes, with British and U.S. forces in pursuit. Nearly a dozen terrorists were arrested this month after an airstrike by a U.S. AC-130 gunship; others may have been killed. Washington carried out a second airstrike this week.

America’s enemies and those on the left like to paint the War on Terror as a uniquely U.S. enterprise. But officials in Addis Ababa had responded based on their own view of the regional dangers posed by Somalia-based terrorists.

And, by the way, the U.S. strikes are especially notable: Washington’s retreat from that country in ’93, after guerrillas downed a U.S. Black Hawk helicopter, helped convince Osama bin Laden that America was spineless – and could be struck with impunity. Terrorists may need to rethink that now.

* U.S. and Iraqi forces cracked down on insurgents in Baghdad this month, killing dozens of them and capturing numerous others. This, just weeks after Saddam Hussein – who bears much responsibility for the carnage in Iraq today – dangled from a rope.

Meanwhile, law-enforcement efforts in the War on Terror have paid off, too:

* A judge this month sent would-be terrorist Shahawar Matin Siraj to the Big House for 30 years for plotting to blow up the Herald Square subway station. Excellent police work by the NYPD managed to foil Siraj’s plans in 2004. Prosecutors then won a key conviction, and Brooklyn federal Judge Nina Gershon did her part in applying the sentence.

* In Germany, Mounir el Motassadeq, the last remaining member of 9/11’s Hamburg sleeper cell, drew a 15-year jail sentence. A lower court had said he played only a small role. But prosecutors made a convincing case for a relatively tough sentence.

Even on a geo-strategic level, there have been potentially good signs: Sunni Arabs states are bolstering their defenses against the Persian Shiites of Iran, the world’s biggest sponsor of terror.

The best news, of course: America continues to extend its record of no domestic attacks since 9/11.

True, the War on Terror is far from over. But if anyone says the West is losing, refer them to the facts.